Spending too fast and too loosely, and listening to bad advice, are the chief problems.
The unit will offer services to family offices and ultra-rich clients.
The service model is a valuable option at a time when accounting services have become commoditized.
Centers of influence are much more likely to refer you to their rich clients if you establish yourself as an expert.
Celebrities can especially benefit from the coordinated approach of a multifamily office.
Many advisors are ignoring strategies that can stoke their personal wealth when they start their own practice.
There are three core ways the super-rich source professionals.
Accounting firms can reap lucrative profits by creating their own family office practice.
Some self-proclaimed asset protection specialists may not up to the job.
Advisors looking to serve wealthy clients need to look at providing family office services.
Wealthy Asians are utilizing U.S. professionals for "outpost" family offices.
The “real magic” occurrs outside the presentations.
Advisors often don't apply their professional skills to their own succession plans.
This specialized level of planning is no longer limited to just the super-rich.
It's one of two acquisitions that has led to Mather launching a multifamily office unit with $5 billion in AUA.
A good amount of confusion surrounds the definition of thought leadership.
Private banks have started special Silicon Valley programs for the offspring of their most valuable clients.
Wealthy investors are growing more curious about private deals.
Advisors no longer need a large in-house staff to provide multifamily services.
Lotteries aren't the only ways prospective clients can strike it rich, so it's best to be prepared.